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La figura di Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) è da sempre tra le più apprezzate dagli studiosi e dagli appassionati di jazz. Eppure spesso ne è stato offerto un ritratto parziale, se non distorto: quello di un genio eccentrico, di un uomo mentalmente disturbato, di un musicista primitivo e naïf. Questa biografia rimette finalmente nella giusta prospettiva critica la vita e la musica del grande pianista-compositore. Grazie a un lavoro di ricerca durato più di dieci anni, durante i quali l'autore ha avuto accesso per la prima volta ai documenti privati della famiglia Monk, scopriamo un Thelonious diverso: un musicista pienamente consapevole della propria arte, determinato a lottare per difendere la sua visione musicale; un individuo sensibile e spiritoso, che malgrado gli eccessi conquistava immancabilmente la stima e la simpatia del prossimo; un uomo attentissimo alla realtà sociale, che nella musica vedeva anche il mezzo per affermare la possibilità di un mondo migliore.
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- Pagine: 806
- Data di uscita: 28-01-2016
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Continuing in my reading about jazz, I just finished the masterpiece Thelonious Monk by Robin D. G. Kelley. It was an incredible read about a largely misunderstood genius. I have always enjoyed listening to Monk, but never exactly understood why. Now, I understand that he would decompose chords by r Leggi tutto
Thelonious Sphere* (* yes, that's his middle name) Monk. What do you know about this dude? Are you into jazz? Have you sampled any of his bag? Misterioso? Blue Monk? Epistrophy? Ruby, My Dear? Do you have any interest in the man behind the music? His relationships with guys like John Coltrane, Miles Leggi tutto
Obviously if you are even a little bit of a Monk-head, you need to read this. My only criticisms would be that there were a few too many excuses or justifications for Monk's behavior when it would have been better to simply accept that, like most of us, he could be an asshole sometimes. I don't real Leggi tutto
Hard to rate -- if I'm going on exhaustive research and attention to detail, I'd give it 5 stars. It reads a little slow and tends to get into a play by play of "how the shows went over" a bit too much, I thought, but generally this was an incredible, interesting read. It's sometimes hard to connect Leggi tutto
A detailed and masterful biography of my favorite jazzman and the pianist Duke Ellington once saluted as having "the baddest left hand in the history of jazz." I started reading this book in April and soon discovered I couldn't just zoom through it the way I do most books. I had to take my time. I h Leggi tutto
Robin D.G. Kelley’s biography on Thelonious Monk should be required reading not only for every jazz musician, but also every American. Every jazz musician knows his songs and every jazz musician considers Monk to be one of the patron saints of the art form. But most don’t know about Monk’s affini Leggi tutto
Wow...what a beautiful story! I enjoy reading biographies (and autobiographies and memoirs) and I really enjoyed reading about the life of Thelonious Monk! I had to really take my time reading this one...LOTS of details and very well researched and written. I have been listening to a LOT of Monk's m Leggi tutto
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